Salinger Wrote 3 Stories No One Knew About Until Now

That's right. They're the real deal.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll want to know is how they were leaked, who leaked them, what stories were leaked, if they're any good, and all that David Copperfield crap, but I don't want to go into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my editors will probably have a fit when they try to edit this copy. Phonies, the lot of them.

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Anyway this is a "literary event" or whatever you want to call it so you'll probably want to know that the stories were leaked by someone buying a copy of what appears to have been an academic-only super rare print from 1999 of three unpublished J.D. Salinger stories. There were only 25 of those (what are essentially) chapbooks printed, according to the eBay listing which is still online. So this guy buys this book on eBay for only $106 and it turns out that they're the real deal, that these really are three unpublished short stories by J.D. Salinger.

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That's right. They're the real deal. They aren't phonies.

So this person or perhaps this person's friend does what any decent fellow would do and scans the book and the scan somehow finds it's way to Reddit. J.D. wasn't the kind of guy to publish much – these are the first new works from him we've seen in over 50 years, thanks to him being a recluse and then dying and all.

It's a little bittersweet these appear on a computer, but there's sure some kismet about it appearing on Thanksgiving Day. There's bound to be a lot of people sleeping under their parent's roofs tonight, their noses tucked into a Salinger novel, just like they were years ago when they were kids for the first time experiencing his books for the first time.